linux-toradex.git/arch/arm/kernel/signal.c, branch v4.10

Merge branch 'fixes' of git://ftp.arm.linux.org.uk/~rmk/linux-arm

2015-09-20T04:05:02+00:00

Pull ARM fixes from Russell King:
 "Three fixes and a resulting cleanup for -rc2:

   - Andre Przywara reported that he was seeing a warning with the new
     cast inside DMA_ERROR_CODE's definition, and fixed the incorrect
     use.

   - Doug Anderson noticed that kgdb causes a "scheduling while atomic"
     bug.

   - OMAP5 folk noticed that their Thumb-2 compiled X servers crashed
     when enabling support to cover ARMv6 CPUs due to a kernel bug
     leaking some conditional context into the signal handler"

* 'fixes' of git://ftp.arm.linux.org.uk/~rmk/linux-arm:
  ARM: 8425/1: kgdb: Don't try to stop the machine when setting breakpoints
  ARM: 8437/1: dma-mapping: fix build warning with new DMA_ERROR_CODE definition
  ARM: get rid of needless #if in signal handling code
  ARM: fix Thumb2 signal handling when ARMv6 is enabled

ARM: get rid of needless #if in signal handling code

2015-09-16T22:58:46+00:00

Remove the #if statement which caused trouble for kernels that support
both ARMv6 and ARMv7.  Older architectures do not implement these bits,
so it should be safe to always clear them.

Signed-off-by: Russell King

ARM: fix Thumb2 signal handling when ARMv6 is enabled

2015-09-16T09:35:40+00:00

When a kernel is built covering ARMv6 to ARMv7, we omit to clear the
IT state when entering a signal handler.  This can cause the first
few instructions to be conditionally executed depending on the parent
context.

In any case, the original test for >= ARMv7 is broken - ARMv6 can have
Thumb-2 support as well, and an ARMv6T2 specific build would omit this
code too.

Relax the test back to ARMv6 or greater.  This results in us always
clearing the IT state bits in the PSR, even on CPUs where these bits
are reserved.  However, they're reserved for the IT state, so this
should cause no harm.

Cc: 
Fixes: d71e1352e240 ("Clear the IT state when invoking a Thumb-2 signal handler")
Acked-by: Tony Lindgren 
Tested-by: H. Nikolaus Schaller 
Tested-by: Grazvydas Ignotas 
Signed-off-by: Russell King

ARM: entry: efficiency cleanups

2015-08-25T09:32:48+00:00

Make the "fast" syscall return path fast again.  The addition of IRQ
tracing and context tracking has made this path grossly inefficient.
We can do much better if these options are enabled if we save the
syscall return code on the stack - we then don't need to save a bunch
of registers around every single callout to C code.

Acked-by: Will Deacon 
Signed-off-by: Russell King

arm: Remove signal translation and exec_domain

2015-04-12T18:58:24+00:00

As execution domain support is gone we can remove
signal translation from the signal code and remove
exec_domain from thread_info.

Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger

all arches, signal: move restart_block to struct task_struct

2015-02-13T02:54:12+00:00

If an attacker can cause a controlled kernel stack overflow, overwriting
the restart block is a very juicy exploit target.  This is because the
restart_block is held in the same memory allocation as the kernel stack.

Moving the restart block to struct task_struct prevents this exploit by
making the restart_block harder to locate.

Note that there are other fields in thread_info that are also easy
targets, at least on some architectures.

It's also a decent simplification, since the restart code is more or less
identical on all architectures.

[james.hogan@imgtec.com: metag: align thread_info::supervisor_stack]
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Al Viro 
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Kees Cook 
Cc: David Miller 
Acked-by: Richard Weinberger 
Cc: Richard Henderson 
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky 
Cc: Matt Turner 
Cc: Vineet Gupta 
Cc: Russell King 
Cc: Catalin Marinas 
Cc: Will Deacon 
Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen 
Cc: Hans-Christian Egtvedt 
Cc: Steven Miao 
Cc: Mark Salter 
Cc: Aurelien Jacquiot 
Cc: Mikael Starvik 
Cc: Jesper Nilsson 
Cc: David Howells 
Cc: Richard Kuo 
Cc: "Luck, Tony" 
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven 
Cc: Michal Simek 
Cc: Ralf Baechle 
Cc: Jonas Bonn 
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" 
Cc: Helge Deller 
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman  (powerpc)
Tested-by: Michael Ellerman  (powerpc)
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky 
Cc: Heiko Carstens 
Cc: Chen Liqin 
Cc: Lennox Wu 
Cc: Chris Metcalf 
Cc: Guan Xuetao 
Cc: Chris Zankel 
Cc: Max Filippov 
Cc: Oleg Nesterov 
Cc: Guenter Roeck 
Signed-off-by: James Hogan 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

ARM: 8194/1: remove clear_thread_flag(TIF_UPROBE)

2014-11-17T20:53:55+00:00

This patch remove clear_thread_flag(TIF_UPROBE) in do_work_pending(),
because uprobe_notify_resume() have do this.

Signed-off-by: Yalin Wang 
Signed-off-by: Russell King

ARM: add uprobes support

2014-03-18T20:39:40+00:00

Using Rabin Vincent's ARM uprobes patches as a base, enable uprobes
support on ARM.

Caveats:

 - Thumb is not supported

Signed-off-by: Rabin Vincent 
Signed-off-by: David A. Long

Merge branches 'fixes', 'mmci' and 'sa11x0' into for-next

2013-11-12T10:59:08+00:00

ARM: 7880/1: Clear the IT state independent of the Thumb-2 mode

2013-11-07T00:19:06+00:00

The ARM architecture reference specifies that the IT state bits in the
PSR must be all zeros in ARM mode or behavior is unspecified.  On the
Qualcomm Snapdragon S4/Krait architecture CPUs the processor continues
to consider the IT state bits while in ARM mode.  This makes it so
that some instructions are skipped by the CPU.

Signed-off-by: T.J. Purtell 
[rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk: fixed whitespace formatting in patch]
Signed-off-by: Russell King